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Title: THE VALIDITY OF HUMAN AND COMPUTERIZED WRITING ASSESSMENT

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OSTI ID:911694

This paper summarizes an experiment designed to assess the validity of essay grading between holistic and analytic human graders and a computerized grader based on latent semantic analysis. The validity of the grade was gauged by the extent to which the student’s knowledge of the topic correlated with the grader’s expert knowledge. To assess knowledge, Pathfinder networks were generated by the student essay writers, the holistic and analytic graders, and the computerized grader. It was found that the computer generated grades more closely matched the definition of valid grading than did human generated grades.

Research Organization:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC07-99ID-13727
OSTI ID:
911694
Report Number(s):
INL/CON-05-00426; TRN: US200804%%644
Resource Relation:
Conference: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Meeting,Orlando, FL,09/26/2005,09/30/2005
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English